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Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh

Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh

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Africa

Archival footage from (South) Africa: 1920s

Michael Gallagher February 17, 2011 0 Comments

I suppose it is historically consistent in that the video portrays (South) Africa as a place where one is more likely to see wildlife than people. Interesting video that pays…

Korea

Video of Korea from 1901

Michael Gallagher January 29, 2011 0 Comments

I have nothing original to add to this video aside from the person who posted it to YouTube. It is a video of Korea at the turn of the 20th…

Korea

Old Seoul in color (1938): rare video footage

Michael Gallagher January 22, 2011 1 Comments

I would like to submit this as Evidence #1000 that YouTube is the greatest treasure trove of gobbledygook the world has ever known. Despite the slightly melodramatic soundtrack, this is…

Libraries

American Memory (Library of Congress) and a Teddy Roosevelt Christmas in Oyster Bay

Michael Gallagher December 23, 2010 0 Comments

I think anyone who spends a few minutes trolling through the Library of Congress's American Memory collections will walk away with at least one record that impresses them. It is…

Africa Libraries

Zamani Project: Documenting African Cultural Heritage

Michael Gallagher March 10, 2010 2 Comments

The Zamani Project is an attempt to capture the spatial domain of heritage, with a current focus on African heritage, by accurately recording its physical and architectural nature and dimensions. Sites…

Education Libraries

Living Memories and Archived Multimedia: The Edison Collection from the Library of Congress

Michael Gallagher January 20, 2010 0 Comments

Trolling through a section in the Library of Congress on Immigration (great learning tool), I rediscovered a collection that I had encountered before, namely the The Motion Pictures and Sound…

Michael Gallagher

Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh